"You better make an effort then. If you can win over Xiaoguai, you’ll never have to worry again. You might even become the ’son-in-law’ of Young Master Jun. Your status will be higher than mine, and you’ll be soaring like a phoenix. Don’t forget me then."
"Meow!" Feng Liyan couldn’t take it anymore and raised a paw to tug at the small bow-tie around his neck.
It was askew but wouldn’t come off.
So he used both paws, yanking at it like it was something he had a deep-seated grudge against.
"Hey, what are you doing? Don’t pull, don’t pull." Bai Yi reached out to try to stop him, but got swatted hard by Feng Liyan.
"Oh no, what are you doing?"
Feng Liyan’s swat was quite strong, and it actually hurt.
Bai Yi jerked his hand back reflexively and rubbed his sore hand.
Seeing Bai Yi’s hand was reddened from the hit, Feng Liyan immediately regretted it, his gray eyes fixed on Bai Yi’s hand with an awkward expression.
Feeling the self-reproach in the Little Gray Cat’s eyes, Bai Yi chuckled, "It’s okay, doesn’t hurt."
Feng Liyan glared fiercely at Bai Yi’s cheeky grin, turned around, and plopped down with the crooked bow-tie still hanging.
Seeing the Little Gray Cat was upset, Bai Yi shamelessly tried to placate him.
Bai Yi’s chatter rang incessantly in Feng Liyan’s ears, from initially annoying him to now being something he was completely used to.
After half an hour of coaxing without any response from the Little Gray Cat, Bai Yi felt a bit glum.
"Your Sister Xiaocha texted me saying she made pork rib porridge for you. Want to go and get it together?"
"Alright, alright, don’t be mad. Let’s go, let’s go." Bai Yi reached out tentatively to touch the Little Gray Cat and, seeing he wasn’t rejected, picked him up.
He dressed him properly and carried him out the door.
Feng Liyan actually didn’t want to go out. Firstly, he didn’t want to wear that ridiculous clothes, and secondly, he feared Bai Yi might pretend to get porridge but actually take him to Xiaoguai.
But because he felt guilty for swatting Bai Yi earlier, he couldn’t bring himself to refuse.
All the way, Bai Yi eagerly introduced the scenery of Wu Garden to the Little Gray Cat. When he saw a beautifully blooming flower, he would hold the Little Gray Cat up to smell it and ask if it was fragrant.
Watching Bai Yi so full of energy, Feng Liyan couldn’t help but smile.
The reason he smiled was because Bai Yi had taken him around Wu Garden two afternoons ago, and what Bai Yi was introducing now, he had already introduced back then.
In the time spent with Bai Yi, he discovered Bai Yi seemed like he had no worries. His energy was consistent all day long, always full of Vital Energy, and anything he did was full of vigor.
It seems that among the Six Realms, humans have the most living pressure, but "pressure" was completely invisible on Bai Yi. Every day he lived like someone carefree, in his twenties acting like a child of seven or eight. No, wait, even seven or eight-year-olds have school to worry about, whereas he had no responsibilities at all.
Even talking endlessly with just an animal was genuinely amusing.
Bai Yi’s approach to life was the most leisurely Feng Liyan had witnessed.
Bai Yi was definitely the only person he had seen who was always enthusiastic about life every day.
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A ten-minute journey had taken Bai Yi nearly an hour.
On the way, he hardly stopped talking, and Feng Liyan didn’t find it annoying at all, sometimes even responding once or twice.
The man and the cat leisurely made their way to the main villa.